Another decent shot of snow for the mountains, especially in the south. Brian Head picked up another 11 inches, with Alta reporting 10 inches of powder and Solitude 9 inches.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS SLC wrote it up.
Another decent shot of snow for the mountains, especially in the south. Brian Head picked up another 11 inches, with Alta reporting 10 inches of powder and Solitude 9 inches. Kanab also picked up a hefty 8 inches of snow.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Salt Lake City, UT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 13, 8:55 PM MST, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.
UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UTAH 855 PM MST SAT JAN 13 2001 SYNOPSIS...NORTHWEST FLOW WILL BE OVER THE STATE THROUGH SUNDAY... THEN GRADUALLY BECOME NORTHEASTERLY ON MONDAY. A DISTURBANCE IN THIS FLOW WILL MOVE THROUGH MAINLY NORTHERN UTAH LATE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. THE AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE TO BE COLD AND SOMEWHAT MOIST INTO MONDAY. DISCUSSION...NEW ETA DOESNT LOOK A LOT DIFFERENT THAN OLD RUNS. WEAK SHORTWAVE OVER OREGON MOVES ACROSS NORTHERN UTAH DURING THE DAY SUNDAY. SOME SCATTERED VERY LIGHT SNOW HAS BEEN DRIFTING OVER NORTHWEST UT THIS EVENING AND WILL CONTINUE. THE BEST CHANCE FOR MORE SIGNIFICANT SNOW WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SHORTWAVE WITH THE LEADING EDGE APPROACHING ELKO AT THIS TIME. SO IT WONT GET HERE UNTIL LATE TONIGHT AND SHOULD PERSIST ALONG THE WASATCH FRONT THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS THEN BEGIN TO DECREASE AFTER MIDDAY. CURRENT PACKAGE HAS THINGS HANDLED WELL. LOW END ADVISORY AMOUNTS OF SNOW LOOK REASONABLE FOR THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS WITH THE CENTRAL WASATCH PICKING UP A BIT MORE. NORTHWEST VALLEYS SHOULD STAY SUB-ADVISORY. SOUTHERN AND EASTERN UT WONT SEE MUCH OTHER THAN CLOUDS THROUGH TOMORROW. SLC 6754 CDC -123 SANDERS .SLC...SNOW ADVSRY TNGT/SUN NORTHERN MTNS...UTZ007>010...IDZ025.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Utah in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, January 2001
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5275178, 5276346.